There will be no “Good Morning, America” for Time Warner Cable subscribers in Milwaukee starting Friday. Or “The Bachelorette.” Or “Modern Family.”

Because ABC affiliate WISN-TV (Channel 12) has been removed from the cable service by the station’s owners, Hearst Television Inc.

All other Hearst stations had been removed from Time Warner earlier this week in a contractual dispute over fees paid to Hearst by Time Warner to carry its 29 stations.

But WISN-TV was granted an exception because of a technicality requiring Time Warner to provide the station’s signal to Charter Communications.

Charter confirmed it has made other arrangements for Hearst to provide it with the signal.

As a result WISN-TV will be removed from the lineup at midnight Thursday.

The station confirmed this on their 10 p.m. newscast.

The story said they would be "temporarily" off the cable service "until further notice."

The station will staff a hotline to answer questions about the blackout and put its local newscasts on its website starting at 6 a.m. Friday.

According to a statement from Time Warner: "Hearst Television has informed us that they will black out the WISN signals from Time Warner Cable customers tonight at midnight. In spite of Hearst's blackout, we stand ready to continue negotiations and are hopeful that the channel will be returned to the lineup shortly. We think it’s wrong to put viewers in the middle of business negotiations."

WISN-TV is still available free over the air, on DirecTV and Dish and from other cable operators.

In an earlier statement, WISN-TV rebutted Time Warner’s assertion that Hearst asked for a 300% increase in fees to carry its stations. WISN-TV president and general manager Jan Wade called that figure "inaccurate. We have sought a reasonable increase consistent with the increased costs we have to pay for our highly valued programs."

Meanwhile Viacom channels like Comedy Central and Nickelodeon remain off DirecTV in a similar dispute. When DirecTV advised its subscribers to watch Viacom shows on the Internet, Viacom responded by taking some of its shows off line.

And finally AMC, which was dropped by Dish Network in a similar dispute, will stream Sunday’s premiere of “Breaking Bad” for Dish customers who register at AMCtv.Com.

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